The COLUMBUS Model, Part I

Weak anticipation is involved (possibly in more than a way) in texts obeying genre-bound poetic conventions, in the generation of such texts, in their receptions, and possibly in events related in such texts, the events having been conceived not necessarily in a vein of realistic verisimilarity. This paper starts with a situation arising in the reception triggered by two ads contiguously rotating on a signboard ; then turns to retracing a schema of how to conceptualize the generation of a text by Rosenzweig, which achieves mock-explanation by ascribing foreknowledge to a character. That literary text combines both mock-etymology and narrative mock-explanation (a humourous aetiological tale), in the form of a learned treatise full of intertextual references to a genre-specific literary canon. An AI formal analysis is sketched for part of its opening page.